Cognitively Straining Task

A Cognitively Straining Task is a cognitive task that is a straining task (to a cognitive agent).

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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Physically Straining Task.
  • Easy Cognitive Task.
• See: Boring Task, Cognitive Skill.

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References

2008

• Mauss, Iris B., Silvia A. Bunge, and James J. Gross. "Culture and automatic emotion regulation." Regulating emotions: Culture, social necessity and biological inheritance (2008): 39-60.
  • QUOTE: … and cardiovascular responses to an anger provocation (Mauss, Evers, Wilhelm, & Gross, 2006, study 2). As part of this anger provocation, participants were instructed by an “unfriendly” and “arrogant” experimenter to repeatedly perform a boring yet cognitively straining task. …

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